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(Served as Arthur Johnson)
324085 6th Battalion, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Attached to 2th/16th Battalion, London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles)
Ernest Amos (recorded as ‘Amos’ on the Original Roll of Honour and clearly on the 1911 census) was born in Sudbury around 1890. He was one of seven surviving children of Thomas Zephaniah and Lucy Amos and the family lived at 16 Melford Road. By 1911 they had moved to Lawshall where his father was stationed as a Police Constable and Ernest was employed as a domestic gardener. The family later moved back to Sudbury to 46 Clarence Road. It is not known why Ernest served under the alias of ‘Johnson’.
Ernest was attached to the 2nd/16th Battalion, which saw action during the final advance across Flanders when the battalion attacked and captured Messines on 28 September 1918.
Ernest died aged 28 on 29 September 1918 and lies buried in Kandahar Farm Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
A Cross of Remembrance was laid by his grave in April 2009.
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